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Author: John Allman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780811210812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems convey the art and science of the world of physics, chemistry, biology, planets and principles.
Author: Eugénio de Andrade
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780811215237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2009-02-27
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0811219712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780811214780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoutines, first published by New Directions in 1964 and going through four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780811215817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial.
Author: Djuna Barnes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780811216715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.
Author: Beidao
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780811211345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Waves, the poet Bei Dao turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780811201025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The ascetics of Scete and the Thebaid in the Egyptian Desert have been more often admired than known or understood. Translations by such scholars as Helen Waddell have done much to restore the true perspective. This new selection from the Latin 'Sayings of the Fathers' (Verba Seniorum) has been made by Thomas Merton with a special purpose. It is not only a translation and selection, but a new monastic redaction in the spirit of our own time. Merton has felt free, as a monk, to do what generations of monks before him have done. He has made a wholly independent and original use of material which is the traditional basis of Christian monastic spirituality." -- Dust jacket.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1970-01-17
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0811220133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.
Author: Enrique Lihn
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780811206778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ease is everything in poetry. It separates genius from the merely masterful, marks the spot where art leaves off and reality begins and the poet speaks not for the poets but for humankind. Enrique Lihn, a Chilean, is a foremost inheritor in [this] Latin American tradition." --Publishers Weekly
